However, I'd just like to publicly thank 17catherines for recently advising me to marinade strawberries in a mix of equal parts sugar to red wine vinegar (or was it white...? I used red, anyway).

This was the perfect recipe for a gel who does not cook but does need to eat more fruit, because it's not really cooking at all. It's just sloshing things into a bowl and coming back an hour or so later to drain out the marinade and add ice cream, and it's not really fruit at all because it tastes nice.

Apparently it's even better with mascarpone cheese and those lattice biscuits. Hmm.